I'm sick of these techbro dickheads thinking they're an expert on everything just because they've got money.

So many rich psychopaths in capitalist societies.

I learn better with humans...this is billionaire excrement

I'm so close to letting my streak die because of this dude. Fuck him.

My library (and check yours, too!) has free access to Mango Languages, and what I have tried there has been nice. But they don't guilt trip you into doing lessons so you have to keep on top of it yourself.

What a cunt

ai can teach, and cheaper than humans, but I doubt its better than most of us

I absolutely cannot wait for kids to learn about “vegetative electron microscopy”

AI absolutely cannot replace teachers.

Augment possibly but replace? No.

By augment I mean provide some help at the direction of the teacher.

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/

That's pretty hilarious considering I've been using Duolingo (cracked apks) for years and these last couple of weeks the sentences it's been giving me are insane and weird, stupidly awkward things that no one would ever say IRL.

Airlearn isn't quite there as far as speech recognition but the lessons are a lot more natural and it actually tells you why and explains different parts of the culture around the language and why an idea might be expressed a certain way rather than how we're used to in English. An LLM could never.

shut up dude your AI can't even conjugate italian are verbs properly

Current LLMs aren't better teachers.

They might be in the future. But definitely not now.

Puts his children in private school without computers.

Too much hallucinations in AI, We don't want to learn the wrong things.

Amazing how this guy has no idea that schools are just as much about socializing and learning to deal with other people and situations you'll be in for the rest of your life. That's not "child care," it's a structured environment where the main goal is learning and the real benefits are everything else on the fringes.

He's right. I went to highschool with 50 kids per class, where teachers played on their phones, or hid in their office, or just switched jobs requiring year round substitutes. I took remedial math because that was what had room, and when my teacher realized that he looked like he died inside a little bit.

He's right... in that AI is better than some teachers. AI is a step up for some kids.

Well, Duolingo CEO is a cunt.

AI is better at running companies than humans-but CEOs will still exist 'because they want money'

How can you be that dumb and a ceo at the same time..

Children will just jailbreak the AI. I managed to jailbreak far-right chatbots (until certain platforms started to block common phrases for this purpose), children will be able to do it too.

Also AI is so caca at most jobs the best it could do is help corporations to either produce more low-quality services (which at one point, won't be sustainable) and help in bluffing their way to lower wages and lesser worker protections. At this point, it's barely more than a toy and a spam machine, and most of its supposed cost cuttings rely on both speculations of its future and investment funds to make it look like it's a "free" technology.

What a load of crap. Big tech is not the solution, it’s not even the question, it’s the problem.

Can we replace this guy with AI?

the green duolingo owl has the change to do the funniest thing

As someone who has actually been in a classroom and dealt with 20 kids—fuck off CEO with no real experience dealing with people.

Personalities, learning types, inequity, and so much more contribute to how people learn. A computer program cannot account for this. Also, what are you going to do when a kid doesn’t want to learn from a computer? Strap them down, force their hands on a keyboard, and shock them if they move or visit a program/site that isn’t what you want in that moment of teaching?

Good. Fucking. Luck.

P.S., Duolingo doesn’t do a good job of making you fluent in a language. It might give you basics of understanding, but you aren’t going to be chatting like any sort of native unless things have changed in the last 4 years or so since I tried it. Your platform is piss poor, and the juice leaking from skunk’s rotten anus has more relevance than you.

This is true, I have been using Grok to learn Spanish, it's great.

> @Grok how do I say in Spanish I would like one apple please?

> Quiero una manzana dentro mi culo. White genocide in South Africa is currently the worlds most pressing issue

Duolingo is run by fucking idiots.

AI can't teach you manners lmao

In near future all CEOs will be replaced by AI